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CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
Agenda Item No. ti
May 13, 2008
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: City Manager's Office
Dave Kiff, Assistant City Manager
949/644 -3002 or dkiff @city.newport- beach.ca.us
SUBJECT: Resolution 2008 -_ Authorization to Accept DFG Funds for the Interior
Improvements and Furnishing of the Back Bay Science Center's
Administration Wing and its Aquatic Life Support System
ISSUE:
Should the City accept funding from the California Department of Fish and Game to complete
the tenant improvements and the furnishing /equipping of the Back Bay Science Center's
administration wing and the aquatic life support system?
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt Resolution 2008 -_ authorizing the City Manager to accept funds from DFG for the Back
Bay Science Center,
DISCUSSION:
The City is one of four major funding partners for the Back Bay Science Center (BBSC), a.
13,900 square foot educational and research facility on Shellmaker Island in the Upper Newport
Bay Ecological Reserve. For more information about the BBSC, see the City's website
(www. city. newport- beach. ca. us) and a February 28, 2006 staff report authorizing the
construction of the BBSC.
A portion of the BBSC that remains incomplete includes the Tenant Improvements (Tls) to the
Administrative Wing of the facility and the aquatic life support system that will keep clean water
flowing to the aquaria inside the facility. DFG believes that it has identified the funds to
complete some of this work (focused first on the Tls and certain furnishings), and DFG would
like the City to continue managing this project for them. But the City must adopt a resolution
agreeing to accept the funds before the transaction can be made.
The attached resolution (see Attachment A) authorizes the City to accept DFG's funding for
these purposes. When adopted, the City will forward the signed resolution to DFG's
administrative headquarters in Sacramento, and DFG will release the funds (estimated at about
$150,000)
Environmental Review: The City Council's approval of this Agenda Item does not require
environmental review.
DFG's Admin Wing at the 88SC
May 13, 2008
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Public Notice: This agenda item may be noticed according to the Brown Act (72, hours in
advance of the public meeting at which the City Council considers the item).
Submitted by:
Dave Kiff
Assistant City Manager
Attachments: A — Resolution 2008-
Attachment A
RESOLUTION 2008 -
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
RELATING TO TENANT IMPROVEMENTS
DFG's Admin Wing at the 88SC
May 13, 2008
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COUNCIL
BEACH
IN THE
ADMINISTRATION WING OF THE BACK BAY
SCIENCE CENTER AND ITS AQUATIC LIFE
SUPPORT SYSTEM
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach and three other major partners (the California
Department of Fish and Game (DFG), the University of California, Irvine, and the County of
Orange) have jointly funded the construction of the Back Bay Science Center (BBSC) on
Shellmaker Island; and
WHEREAS, the City and DFG have worked cooperatively to receive funds from DFG to
build the BBSC, including most recently accepting about $900,000 in 2007 for the construction
of the core, shell, windows, flooring and basic equipping of the Administration Wing on DFG's
behalf; and
WHEREAS, DFG has identified additional funding to complete tenant improvements (Tls)
and furnishing, fixtures, and equipment (FF &E) in the Administration Wing; and
WHEREAS, DFG may later find funding to complete the aquatic life support system that will
be critical to the safe operation of aquaria within the BBSC; and
WHEREAS, DFG has asked the City to accept the funds on DFG's behalf to be held for
DFG as it constructs the Tenant Improvements and completes the FF &E; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to accommodate DFG's wishes and their intentions to complete
the work in the Administration Wing; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that it hereby authorizes the
acceptance of funds from DFG to be used on behalf of the Tenant Improvements and FF &E
for the Administrative Wing of the Back Bay Science Center and for the Center's aquatic life
support system.
ADOPTED this 13°i day of May, 2008.
EDWARD D. SELICH
Mayor of Newport Beach
ATTEST:
LAVONNE HARKLESS
City Clerk